Partner with us

We work with photographers and writers to discover the most unique and 'pculiar' traditional events and customs around the world. If you’d like us to feature your story or start a partnership, email us some details and we’ll follow up.

Events

27/12/2018 - 27/12/2018

Purpuris will be visiting the houses of the village and dance around their yards. He will wish prosperity and fertility for the year to come and the house owner will treat him with food and drinks, usually Tsipouro.

27/12/2018 - 27/12/2018

Purpuris will be visiting the houses of the village and dance around their yards. He will wish prosperity and fertility for the year to come and the house owner will treat him with food and drinks, usually Tsipouro.

06/01/2019 - 06/01/2019

On the day of Epiphany, January 6, in a village nearby Thessaloniki, called Profitis (Prophet), the custom of Arapides takes place. This is a Dionysian custom where people of the village are dressed in goat's skin, wear colorful long hats and hang large pastoral bells around their waists to scare away the Kallikantzaroi.

08/01/2019 - 09/01/2019

Some of the people in the village would dress up in goat's skin and carry large pastoral bells around their waists. The idea is to look scary enough so they would be able to scare away the kallikantzaroi